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IH. D. HOLBROOK.

` TURNED SHOE. No. 560,716.

Patented May 26, 1896.

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HARRY D. I'IOLBROOK, OF UTIOA, NEYV YORK.

TURNEDi sHoE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,716, dated. May 26, 1896.

Application filecl February 11, 1895.` Serial No. 538,056. (No model.)

`declare that the following isa full, clear, and

exact description of my invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap-V pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of Vreference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shoes and the manufacture thereof.

In the drawings which accompany this specification and in which similar figures of reference refer to corresponding parts in the several views, Figure l shows an inside View of the sole of my shoe with flaps secured to its edge in the process of manufacture. Fig. 2 shows alongitudinal section of my improved shoe made according to inyprocess of manufacture. Fig. 3 shows a cross-section of the completed shoe. Fig. 4 shows a cross-section of an incompleted Ashoe before itis turned. Fig. 5 shows the heel-piece of the insole.

Referring to the reference-figures in a more particular description of the device, l indicates the sole of Ainy shoe, which is grooved on the outer side to form the protectingY lip or edge 2. Adjacent to the edge of the sole on the inside and extending from a position at about the corners of the heel around the toe is the channel 3, which is formed by cutting up a thin lip from the body of the sole, as is usual in the construction of turned slioes. The upper 4 and the flaps 5 5, of some pliable and preferably textile material, are secured in the grooved upper edge of the sole l by the stitches G, ektendiiig in a substantially horizontal direction from the channel 3 through the edges of the upper 4 and tlie edge of the iiap 5. Tliefia-ps 5 5 extend from a position substantially coincident with the front side of the heel through to the toe of the shoe and varyin width, so that when lapped over they will quite or nearly meet on the middle or central line of the sole. The flaps 5 5 are turned over and forni a covering for the insole 7 and are cemented down on top of the insole. The insole is also cemented to the outer sole l.

The insole is preferably composed of cork or a` composition of cork, which is more or less elastic and impervious to water and a nonconductor of heat. Between the insole 7 and the outer sole l, over the heel S and extending forward therefrom, is introduced the shankpiece 9, preferably of stift leather, and in this shank-piece may also be embedded a steel spring, if desired. Between the rear end of the shank-piece 9 and the sole lis introduced the edge of the upper 4, which consists of the heel of the shoe and the piece of stiffening or counter l0, which surrounds the heel portion of the shoe, and the layers of leather forming the heel are secured together by nails ll, passing through the heel and clenehing in the shank-piece 9.

The shoe is what is known as a turned shoe, and the insole 7 may be placed in position before the shoe is turned, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4, and the iiaps 5 5 turned Vover and cemented down before the shoe is turned, or the insole may be placed in position after the shoe is turned. In either event the construction will be as shown in the crosssectionin Fig. 3 and by the longitudinal section in Fig. 2.

The insole consists in part of the detached heel-section 7n, which is not placed in position until after the shoe has been turned and the heelV applied and the nails ll clenched in the shank-piece 9. The absence of thepiece 7 allows the last or other instrument to face down on top of the shank-piece, causing the nails ll to clench therein. After the nails ll are clenched the section 7 of the insole is placed in position in the' shoe, and cemented in and over the whole insole with the flaps 5 5 is cemented the sock-lining 12. The arrangement of parts is preferably such that the rear end of the flaps 5 and t-he rear end of the insole 7, excepting the detached piece 7, will terminate on the saine transverse line of the shoe, and the thickness of the section 7 of the insole may be such as to equal the thickness of the forward portion of the insole and that of the flaps 5, thus obviating any uiievenness of the surface at this point in the completed shoe.

It is obvious that a lining may be provided for the upper 4, in which event the edges of the lining and the upper would both be se- IOO cured by the stitches 6 between the edge of the iiap 5 and the body of the sole. I use such a lining, but to keep the drawings clear and distinct and Without complication the lining has been omitted from the drawings.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A shoe having an upper, a sole, aheel, a semielastic insole of cork or similar composition, a detached heel-section of insole corresponding in size, shape and location with the heel, a shankpiece introduced between the sole and the rear portion of the insole, ineluding the detached section thereof and nails securing the heel clenched in the shankvhereby in the process of manufacture the nails may be clenched in the shank-piece While the detached section of insole is removed, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination in a shoe of a sole, a heel, an insole of cork or composition, a detached thicker section Vof insole of the same material corresponding in size, shape and position with the heel, a shank introduced between the insole and heel-section thereof and the sole, iiaps 5 5 secured to opposite sides of the sole extending from the front side of the heel-section of insole to the toe and turned over the insole Where they meet substantially .on the middle line, forming a casing of the HARRY I). HOLBROOK. Vitnesses:

J. A. BENNETT, D. H. Connenovn. 

